I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Wordsworth
- First Published: 1807
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Memory, Nature, Religion, Emotions, Flowers, Gods or goddesses, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Stars, Clouds, Waves
The Poem
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” resulted from an experience of William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy while on a walking tour of the Ullswater region in April, 1802. Dorothy wrote of it at length in her journal; when the poet began to compose the present poem two years later, his wife Mary Hutchinson Wordsworth contributed what are now lines 21-22, which William correctly identified as the best two in the poem. While rearranging his works for an 1815 publication, Wordsworth added the second stanza. As it presently stands, this poem is reputed to be the most...
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